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Cloud Computing: Good or Bad for Open Source?

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Glyn Mody
Oct 22, 2009

“Richard Stallman has no doubts:

“”It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing
hype campaign,” he told The Guardian.

“”Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you
hear somebody saying that, it’s very likely to be a set of
businesses campaigning to make it true.”

“The 55-year-old New Yorker said that computer users should be
keen to keep their information in their own hands, rather than hand
it over to a third party.

“Go on, Richard, tell us what you really think.”


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